’Updates in Diabetes 2025’, Lecture by prof. Michael Roden, PhD

As part of the lecture series ’Updates in Diabetes 2025’, prof. Michael Roden, PhD, gave a lecture titled ’On the Heterogeneity of Diabetes Mellitus’ on Monday, 10 November, at the SASA Grand Hall.

Michael Roden graduated from University of Vienna, Austria, was trained at General Hospital Vienna and as Max-Kade fellow at Yale University. He is certified in internal medicine, endocrinology/diabetology/metabolic disease and clinical pharmacology and was head of the 1^st medical department at the university teaching hospital, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna.

Since 2008, he is chair/full professor of endocrinology and metabolic diseases, director of the division of endocrinology and diabetology at Heinrich-Heine University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany, currently also heading the department of medical clinics. Simultaneously, he is CEO of the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) and a speaker of the German Centers of Diabetes Research.

His translational research addresses insulin resistance, energy metabolism, precision medicine in diabetes and comorbidities, particularly steatotic liver diseases. He has published >800 peer-reviewed papers (e.g. in NEJM, Nature, Lancet,…), is a Highly Cited Researcher  and received several awards.